The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.
Bela Lugosi | Dr. Charles Kessler |
Polly Ann Young | Virginia Kessler |
John McGuire | Ralph Dickson / Paul Dickson |
Clarence Muse | Evans the Butler |
Terry Walker | Cecile |
George Pembroke | Lt. Williams |
Betty Compson | Mrs. Kessler |
Ernie Adams | Jules |
Ottola Nesmith | Mrs. Mason |
Fred Kelsey | Detective Ryan |
Jack Mulhall | Jim, a detective |
Fred Aldrich | Guard at Ralph's Execution |